Car kills wandering cow on Ohio interstate

CINCINNATI (AP) — Authorities near Cincinnati say a car struck and killed a cow that had wandered onto an interstate, and a second cow on the highway had to be shot to avoid another accident.

Police shutdown Interstate 275 on the city’s west side for about an hour early this morning.

The cows had gotten loose from a nearby farm. The Hamilton County sheriff’s office says the driver whose car hit one of the animals wasn’t injured.

Authorities say deputies at the scene called an animal protection agency and requested tranquilizers to subdue the remaining cow but were told the agency didn’t have any.

After deputies shot the animal, it wandered into the woods and died.